This Friday evening, March 2nd, former Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen and our own Lee Busby will be reading in the PSU Theater at 7 PM ~ a very special night of poetry that should not be missed!! Please visit the PawPrints Bookstore in the PSU to purchase books from both of these authors. Each poet will also be selling and signing books after the reading Friday … [Read more...] about Poetry reading by former Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen and our own Lee Busby
On Friday, October 7th, 2011, the English Department at Missouri State University held its First Friday Artwalk Creative Writing Showcase at the Park Central Branch Library located at 128 Park Central Square in Springfield, Missouri. This first-time event featured faculty, alumni, and student writers in the areas of fiction and poetry. W.D. Blackmon, Jane Hoogestraat, Jen … [Read more...] about First Friday Artwalk Creative Writing Showcase
Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading at Missouri State University is now available for you to watch online. Travis Mossotti has been an English Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, McKendree University, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and he will continue teaching in St. Louis in the fall. He will be reading from his new book About the … [Read more...] about Watch the Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading Online
The Missouri State University English Department is excited to announce a reading event next Tuesday evening, 7 p.m. September 27th in Plaster Student Union Theater. Guest poet Travis Mossotti is visiting campus and will be featured along with our own Sara Burge. There will be a book signing for both Travis and Sara after the reading in the Paw Prints Bookstore (located inside … [Read more...] about Travis Mossotti and Sara Burge Reading and Book Signing
The Missouri State University Creative Writing program is hosting the Fall 2011 Soul of a Poet reading next Tuesday night, Sept. 20th, at 7 PM in The Library Center on South Campbell. The featured readers are Joseph Cover (fiction) and Lora Knight (poetry). Joe Cover has a Masters in English and has been teaching Creative Writing at Missouri State University since 2003. … [Read more...] about Soul of a Poet